EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Identity Management

EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the ninth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. This year, Security moves back to the top of the list.

"Presidents, provosts, and boards need to understand the risks of not having a robust IdM system in place: bad public relations, public terminations, lawsuits, students who leave and do not return, alumni who refuse to continue to donate, and the high costs of being in a reactive mode. "

EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the eighth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. This year, Funding IT moves back to the top of the list.

The authors discuss the growing importance of the topic of identity management and what issue schools need to take into account to implement an IdM infrastructure.

EDUCAUSE presents the findings from its seventh annual Current Issues Survey. For the first time ever, security and identity management has topped information technology funding as the number-one IT-related issue in terms of its strategic importance to the institution.

The author discusses EDUCAUSE's partnerships with other organizations in solving identity management issues such as theft and secure authorization.

In the context of increased need for security, the author discusses the biometric identification of iris recognition.